Kurtis Pykes

Machine Learning Engineer

Kurtis Pykes is a Machine Learning Engineer, a Top Writer at Towards Data Science, and an Upwork Top Rated Freelancer. Follow his Medium blog.

Don’t Waste Time Building Your Data Science Network

By Kurtis Pykes, Machine Learning Engineer on November 10, 2021 in Career Advice, Data Science, Data Science Skills
Instead, focus on what matters.
The Difference Between Data Scientists and ML Engineers

By Kurtis Pykes, Machine Learning Engineer on August 11, 2021 in Career Advice, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer
What's the difference? Responsibilities, expertise, and salary expectations.
Feature Engineering for Numerical Data

By Kurtis Pykes, Machine Learning Engineer on September 11, 2020 in Data Preparation, Data Science, Feature Engineering
Data feeds machine learning models, and the more the better, right? Well, sometimes numerical data isn't quite right for ingestion, so a variety of methods, detailed in this article, are available to transform raw numbers into something a bit more palatable.
Getting Started with Feature Selection

By Kurtis Pykes, Machine Learning Engineer on August 25, 2020 in Beginners, Data Preparation, Feature Selection
For machine learning, more data is always better. What about more features of data? Not necessarily. This beginners' guide with code examples for selecting the most useful features from your data will jump start you toward developing the most effective and efficient learning models.

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